With the new year I have a shelf of miniatures that has been decorating my craft room displaying everything I painted as the year went on. New year, and it is time to clear the shelf. But I don’t want to just throw all of these miniatures in a box where they can chip and break. I also don’t have the space for loads of foam rubber trans to be custom cut, etc.

My solution is to use this system that was introduced last year as a sort of Kickstarter-esque project by Mod Innovations called the Modi Loop Open Source Mini Holder System, which is quite a mouthful. The picture above explains it nicely, but you have trays that either use bolts of magnets to hold loops in which the miniatures go and are held in place by a pivoting arm. The whole thing is 3D printable, there are loops for every base size you can imagine, even to the point where there is a 25mm, 26mm, and 27mm sized loop because not all bases are created equal. You can print the trays at different sizes, there are different lengths of bolts and arm attachments, etc. The whole thing is very customizable and the small size means you can crank out a ton of pieces quickly with very little filament. I store all of the pieces in my handy Harbor Freight mini tool box with my custom 3D printed Grinfinity trays inside. The flat trays then go into boxes and the boxes go into the basement, clearly labelled.

I have trays printed up that go into my travel D&D GM kit so I can safely transport whatever miniatures I need. My one complaint is that the trays for the Modi mini holders are not the same size as Gridfinity, which would be helpful. Mod Innovations does have whole “Modi Boxi” set where you can print out boxes with hinges, et al that are of course scaled to fit the trays from the miniatures, but I have not gone that route (yet).

Just thought I’d share some helpful hints about how I am organizing things as the new year begins. Thanks for reading, and comments welcome!